Space freighter burns up after launch to to ISS: 1 December 2016

at the space laboratory are "at good levels".

The cargo ship, which had been scheduled to arrive at the ISS on Saturday, was carrying 2.4 tonnes of fuel, food and equipment when it took off, said.

French , who launched to the ISS for a six-month mission in November, confirmed that the ISS crew had enough supplies.

"We can last many months up here without supplies because we recycle as much as possible and have many spares," Pesquet wrote on his Facebook page. A Soyuz spacecraft stands at the launch pad of the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on "Spaceflight is international teamwork and some November 14, 2016 setbacks are always expected!"

Pesquet added that a cargo ship from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency was set to arrive on An unmanned cargo ship travelling to the December 9. International Space Station burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch on Thursday, Second failed launch Russia's space agency said. The Russian agency said a state commission "According to preliminary information, as a result of would probe the failure but did not say whether an abnormal situation, the cargo ship's loss future launches would be affected. occurred some 190 kilometres (110 miles) above the remote, unpopulated mountainous territory of In April 2015, a failed Progress launch was blamed (Russia's) Tuva region, and most fragments on a problem with a Soyuz rocket. burned up in dense layers of the atmosphere," Roscosmos said in a statement. Russia put all space travel on hold for nearly three months, and a group of had to spend an Roscosmos said earlier Thursday that it had lost extra month on the ISS. contact with the Progress MS-04 383 seconds after launch from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia said at the time that because the same type The failure was being investigated. of rocket is used for manned ships, all issues with Progress resupply missions needed to be The agency said the loss will "not affect the ISS thoroughly investigated before any manned vessels system's normal operations and the subsistence of could be launched. the station's crew". Russia sends three or four such spacecraft per NASA meanwhile said on its website that supplies year to supply the ISS. After making their delivery,

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they plummet back to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean.

Pesquet last month successfully blasted off to the ISS along with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and NASA's .

The launch followed that of Russians Andrei Borisenko and Sergei Ryzhikov and American in October, which was pushed back by nearly a month due to technical issues.

Technical problems have complicated plans to extend the periods during which the ISS is fully staffed with six astronauts.

Russia's Soyuz capsules offer the only way for astronauts to reach the ISS since the US shuttle was retired in 2011.

A US-led venture, the ISS comprises a human outpost and laboratory in space, assembled from components starting in 1998. It travels in low orbit at about 28,000 kilometres per hour (17,000 miles per hour).

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